2008

September

• FDIC urges temporary boost in $100,000 cap on insured bank deposits

• Passage of broadband data bill may help efforts to improve access to high-speed Internet

• Remarks of Senator Barack Obama—as prepared for delivery Reno, Nevada

• US to welcome up to 80,000 refugees over next year

• Bush signs sprawling spending bill

• Close friend turns star witness in Stevens trial

• MN Women’s Press Endorses Barack Obama and Joe Biden

• AP: Obama calls on Americans to support rescue plan

• The new bailout pitch: It’s NOT a bailout

• Lawmakers hope new ideas will revive bailout plan

• McCain angers Michigan sugar beet growers

• Ex-CIA official pleads guilty in contracts case

• Without a Bailout Plan, What Will the Cost Be?

• AP Investigation: Palin got zoning aid, gifts

• Obama proposes increasing bank deposit insurance

• McCain focusing on Iowa despite polls

• McCain at dead end as House rejects bailout plan

• White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal

• Analysis: Barack Obama bolsters readiness claim

• Is the U.S. putting mentally incompetent terror suspects on trial?

• Prosecutor Named to Probe U.S. Attorneys’ Firings

• House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205, But New Vote Is Planned; Stocks Plunge

• Bailout Bill House Vote Results

• Treasury Would Emerge With Vast New Power

• McCain says Obama policies will deepen recession

• Congress set to leave without deal on minimum tax

• House debates bailout bill with vote set for today

• Bush says financial bailout package vital

• A Freddie Mac Money Trail Catches Up With McCain

• McCain concedes his health care plan would raise taxes   Today on This Week with George Stephanopo

• Paulson Must Make $700 Billion Rescue for Banks Work

• Alaska Natives question Palin’s support

• Congressional leaders, Bush team pressing lawmakers to swallow distaste, support $700B bailout

• McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry

• Pelosi: Rescue is not a bailout but a `buy-in’

• Wednesday: Barack Obama in La Crosse

• McCain defends Palin’s contradiction on Pakistan

• Who wins, who loses under proposed bailout plan?

• Delicate embrace by Obama, McCain of $700B bailout

• $700B bailout plan finalized; House to vote Monday

• Main Street turns against Wall Street

• Lawmakers work to nail down $700B bailout plan

• Senate passes $634B spending bill Grants $25 billion in loans to auto industry and More

• Buffett to Congress: Bail out economy or face ‘meltdown’

• Tentative accord reached on bailing out bankers

• What Michelle Obama Would Bring to the White House

• Oh, the Drama! McCain in the Theater of the Absurd

• Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign

• White House, Congress push for bailout deal Email this Story Sep 27, 7:52 PM (ET)  By CHARLES BABI

• In McCain-Obama debate, a clash of two visions

• How McCain Stirred a Simmering Pot

• Democrats claim progress in reaching bailout deal

• Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate

• Troubled bailout talks restarted _ with urgency

• Still No Bailout Deal, But McCain Resumes Campaign

• McCain proves he’s unfit to serve

• Congress restarts troubled bailout talks

• The debate is on; McCain agrees to participate

• McCain’s looming debate debacle

• Bush’s Bailout Meeting Ends in Disarray; McCain Gets Blame

• First McCain-Obama debate remains doubtful

• Uncertainty dawns after bad day for Bush, McCain and bailout plan

• Obama says more work needed for deal

• Dems, some in GOP question McCain’s intervention

• Amid GOP revolt, bailout deal breaks down

• Who Should Obama Debate?

• GOP, Democratic Negotiators Reach Agreement in Principle

• Deal Close on $700 Billion Financial Bailout Plan

• Dems, some in GOP question McCain’s intervention

• McCain leaves presidential debate up in the air

• Tentative meltdown deal: Bush, McCain, Obama meet

• Palin quiet on Sen. Ted Stevens’ political future

• Close Contests in Four Key States

• State rep seeks witness-tampering probe in Palin inquiry

• Bailout Could Deepen Crisis, CBO Chief Says Thursday 25 September 2008 »  by: Frank Ahrens, T

• Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations Wednesday 24 September 2008 »  by: Mark Mazzetti

• Election Officials in Three States Tell College Students They Can’t Vote     by: Greg Gordon, McCl

• Opening arguments set in Stevens’ corruption trial

• Conn. Democrats delay plan to censure Lieberman

• Obama, McCain to attend economic bailout talks

• Deal close on $700 billion financial bailout plan

• Bush warns of long recession without rescue plan

• McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac

• Laura Bush: Palin lacks foreign policy experience

• Obama says debate should go ahead

• McCain Proposes Suspending Campaign to Deal With Economic Crisis

• Obama: McCain slow to challenge Wall St salaries

• Ike-battered Galveston allows residents to return

• Democratic leaders ask for a smaller bailout

• Bush to address nation tonight on economy woes

• Fed Chief Calls Delay a Threat to the Economy

• FOX News Poll: Obama Reclaims Lead Over McCain, 45% to 39%

• Excerpts of Sen Biden-National Security Speech (Cincinnati, OH)

• Poll finds 18 percent of voters undecided

• House takes up Senate-passed tax break package

• Exec pay limits gain support as bailout questioned

• Democrats to let offshore drilling ban expire

• FBI investigating companies at heart of meltdown

• Democrats and Republicans alike sceptical of Bush bailout plan

• Despite Pressure, House GOP Hesitant on Financial Rescue Plan

• Democrats battling to add restrictions to $700 billion bailout More on this Story     * Story | Can

• Dodd: ‘No second act’ to fixing financial mess

• The Change We Need in Washington

• Clinton says Democrats should win this year

• Obama: Bailout likely to delay spending programs

• Record Funding for National Guard, Says Gates

• Dodd Takes the Lead, Proposes Progressive Bailout

• National Association of Police Organizations endorses Obama

• Congress, Bush team agree on some bailout terms

• Obama to Unveil Plan to Reform the Greed and Excesses of Washington

• Fact Check: Did Obama vote 94 times for higher taxes?

• AP-Yahoo Poll: Blacks, whites still see society through different lenses

• U.S. Widens Scope of Bad-Debt Plan Beyond Home Loans

• Democrats Begin to Set Own Bailout Terms

• National Security Leaders Discuss Obama’s Plan to Keep Americans Safe

• Remarks of Senator Barack Obama—as prepared for delivery

• Market Bailout Irks Congress

• Iraq Moving Toward Biden’s Controversial Vision

• Paulson’s monster

• Indiana Keeps Obama Guessing

• Polling Tidbits: Sarah Palin Now Least Popular of the Big Four

• Biden Aggressively Defends Upper Class Tax Increase

• Ike evacuees jump gun, sneak back onto island

• Obama, McCain combine for record $94M spending

• Bush team, Congress negotiate $700B bailout

• Obama’s Foreign Policy Advantage

• Administration asks Congress for $700B for bailout

• McCain has biggest spending month in August

• Obama hits McCain on lobbyists, Social Security

• Judge orders Cheney to preserve records

• Bush team, Congress negotiate $700B bailout

• Obama at UM: “It’s Time for Resolve”  Friday 19 September 2008 »  by: Beth Reinhard, Patricia

• Democrats Seek to Add Subprime Relief to Paulson’s Rescue Plan

• McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts

• Congress, administration craft financial rescue

• Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama

• US Soldier in Iraq Shoots Two American Sergeants Thursday 18 September 2008

• Remarks of Sen Obama (Espanola, NM)

• STATEMENT FROM OBAMA ON EMERGING FEDERAL RESERVE-TREASURY PLAN

• Not limited government, but limited Bush

• Obama to meet economic advisers to offer new plans

• McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts

• Palin’s husband refuses to testify in probe

• Obama mocks McCain’s call to fire SEC chairman

• Bush says he’s working hard on economic turmoil

• Obama campaign files suit over “voter-foreclosure” plans

• Top Clinton fundraiser backs McCain over Obama

• Obama supporters say get tougher, more passionate

• Candidates scramble to shift economic message

• White House alters defense of economy’s strength

• Obama Statement on AIG

• Obama picks up about $9 million in Hollywood

• McCain divided over $85 billion bailout for AIG

• Obama To Speak Directly to Nation on the Economy In Two-Minute Advertisement

• OBAMA-BIDEN PLAN FOR THE GREAT LAKES

• Troopergate probe running into new resistance

• Bush suddenly scraps comments on financial markets

• McCain, Obama trade heated jabs over the economy

• General to Hand Over Iraq Control

• Barbra Streisand headlines fundraiser for Obama

• McCain: A commission should tackle economic crisis

• Palin won’t meet with ‘Troopergate’ investigator

• McCain says Obama didn’t call Palin a pig

• Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy

• Remarks by Senator Joe Biden at Saint Clair Shores, MI

• Greenspan: Can’t Afford McCain Tax Cuts

• Obama blames Wall St. crisis on Republican policy

• Biden Blasts McCain Campaign, GOP Plan to Tax Health Care Benefits Saturday 13 September 2008 &#18

• Obama camp says it raised $66 million in August Email this Story Sep 14, 3:41 PM (ET)  By JIM KUHN

• Obama camp suggests Palin has distorted record

• Forum sells ‘Obama Waffles’ with racial stereotype

• Obama tries to regain his stride

• Palin and Troopergate: A Primer

• Palin defends nearly $200M in project requests

• Alaska lawmakers vote to subpoena Todd Palin

• Whites lift McCain to slim lead over Obama in poll

• Palin defends earmark requests for Alaska

• The ABCs of Sarah Palin

• Sarah Palin tries to defend qualifications, struggles with foreign policy questions

• Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview

• Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate

• Kucinich Wants ‘Truth’ Commission on Bush, Iraq War

• The Clintons: a stage with no exit

• Palin leaves open option of war with Russia

• McCain and Obama commemorate 9/11 anniversary

• Officials: Bush secretly OK’d raids in Pakistan

• Film shows McCain’s release from Vietnamese prison

• Pentagon Oversight Takes a Step Forward

• McCain Nuclear Energy Revival May Cost $315 Billion

• Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks

• US marks 7th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks

• Obama calls on US to renew 9/11 spirit of service

• Obama Strikes Back on Contrived Lipstick Controversy

• Leaked US-Iraqi Draft Agreement Envisions Indefinite Occupation

• Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Deptartment

• McCain’s Fannie and Freddie Connections

• Democrats’ advice for Obama: Tie McCain to Bush

• Obama accuses McCain camp of lies, phony outrage

• Obama Remarks on President Bush’s Speech

• AP Fact Check: Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere

• Pentagon leaders to urge caution in troop cuts

• No questions, please; Palin sticks to her script

• Obama puts heat on Palin as she boosts GOP ticket

• McCain camp: Obama’s ‘lipstick’ remark disgraceful

• Obama embraces charter schools in education plan

• Obama accuses Republican rivals of dishonesty

• Bush to announce 8,000 troops to return from Iraq

• Bush cancels civilian nuclear deal with Russia

• The McCain Bounce?

• US government takes on big role in mortgage market

• McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earmarks Email this Story Sep 8, 1:17 PM (ET)  By SARA KUGLER LE

• Fannie, Freddie deal helps some borrowers, not all

• McCain targets GOP and Bush along with Obama

• Palin offers first TV interview to ABC News

• Bush: Takeover of housing giants ‘critical’

• Politico: Biden challenges Palin to take questions

• Joint Statement of Barack Obama and John McCain COncerning 9/11

• Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage

• Obama, McCain call for changes in mortgage giants

• McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?

• Candidates weigh in on stabilizing Fannie, Freddie

• Most Clinton backers say Palin’s too far a stretch

• Abramoff Gets 4 Years In Jail, Pens Memoir

• Senator Obama on The Republican National Convention

• Rice set to make history in Libya

• McCain, Obama pitted in 8-week contest of ‘change’

• MPR: McCain vows change in Washington

• McCain accepts GOP nomination: ‘change is coming’

• Bush intends to punish Moscow for invading Georgia

• McCain to accept nomination on ‘town hall’ stage

• Palin: Democrats spreading misinformation and lies

• Analysis: GOP struggles with identity on Palin’s big night

• Congress is about to pour lighter fluid on Iran There’s a great deal of support for two resolutions

• Palin revs up Republicans at convention for McCain

• Poll Show A GOP Disaster

• McCain trying to get back on script

• Vice President Cheney arrives in Azerbaijan

• Bush moving quickly to inspect hurricane damage

• Palin to take center stage as questions swirl

• After a slow start, the convention gets back on schedule September 2, 2008 President Bush will deli

• Palin’s husband was member of third party

• Hundreds protest poverty, homelessness as GOP meet

• Gonzales won’t face charges for mishandling info

• As Mayor, Palin Used Funding Ploy She Now Decries

• Bush headlines lineup at GOP convention

• With Palin revelations, McCain’s gamble is clearer

• US house speaker visits Hiroshima A-bomb memorial

• John McCain’s vetter defends Sarah Palin review

• Obama to Media, Politicos on Palin Pregnancy Story: ‘Back Off!’

• Troop ‘Surge’ Took Place Amid Doubt and Debate

• Military Sending Foreign Fighters to Home Nations

• Day of stunning Palin disclosures

• Lawyers: Gonzales mishandled classified data

• CBS POLL: Obama Post-Convention Bounce

• Troopergate could dog Palin on campaign